[jedberg]

I asked this question. They told me RTO is carbon neutral. They had complicated models but the gist of it was that the efficiency of heating and cooling one office is less carbon than everyone at home doing it for themselves and that people at the office are forced to run errands more efficiently resulting in an equal number of car trips.

They weren’t interested in counter arguments about how with the other people at home the house has to be heated/cooled anyway.

[jwells89]

I wonder if their numbers factor in the hundreds of SUVs idling for hours as they creep through rush hour traffic…

[josefritz]

I think their carbon calculations also assume that nobody closes those now nearly empty offices. If they do... then there is no way for it to be carbon neutral. RTO is the clear winner.